[CPEO-BIF] Ruston Foundry site, Alexandria, Louisiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Alexandria negotiating to get title to reclaimed foundry site

Bret H. McCormick
Alexandria Town Talk (LA)
February 14, 2011

The city of Alexandria continues to seek ownership rights to the former 
Ruston Foundry site and surrounding property in South Alexandria, an 
area the city has targeted for redevelopment.

City officials and residents who live near the site in the Lower Third 
Street area have been working for years to clean up and rehabilitate the 
site, which had been classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency as a toxic Superfund site.

The EPA's record of decision of Nov. 9, 2009, that the 6.6-acre tract of 
land has been remediated to the point that it qualifies for 
redevelopment has allowed the city to move forward with plans to acquire 
the property and nearly 30 adjacent acres from Kansas City Southern 
Railroad.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20110214/NEWS01/102140328/0/OPINION/Alexandria-negotiating-get-title-reclaimed-foundry-site?odyssey=nav|head

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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